Quotes About Experience

Come la vita, la letteratura è vissuta in avanti e compresa a ritroso.

Time takes life away and gives us memory...

Man seeks ecstasy and transcendence, and if he cannot find them in church, he will look for them elsewhere.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.

Rachel shivers with a mixture of fascination and revulsion. How can she think about this sort of thing so glibly? Is that what trauma does to you?

I remembered about the pharma coke, went outside, and nailed a line so pure it was like getting yelled at by God.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota.

Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.

If you're lucky, and you're like me, you'll be old much longer than you are young, and you will enjoy the wisdom that comes from experience. But you have to plan for that. That's why it's important to find something you love to do.

Life is a mystery to lived, not a problem to be solved.

He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create a glorious work of art.

I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . . ~ Edna Ferber's SO BIG

How can you quantify the moment when a person laughs, or when they cry, when they feel? You can't. It's the human experience.

The young have everything but wisdom.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown. Ciro

But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.

first impression is often just that, a quick snapshot that on its own merit is meaningless. After a vacation, in time, it gets lost in a shoe box full of them.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

When you see an old lady who's on the wrong side of a good mood, now you know why. She has a past that you can't understand because you didn't live it. As she ages, her feet hurt, her back aches, her knees click, she cooks, she cleans, she worries, she waits, and then she gets sick and dies. Be kind, Anina. Someday you'll be the old lady.

want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . .